Thursday, March 10, 2016

Competency-based education: No hard evidence

Sent to the Sunshine
State News,March 11.

Re:"Senate
Green Lights Competency-Based Education Program"

Missing from the
discussion of the Florida Senate bill supporting competency-based education
(CBE) is the fact that there is no hard evidence supporting it.The following statement about CBE is from a National Governor's Association report, a document that aggressively promotes CBE: "Although
an emerging research base suggests that CBE is a promising model, it includes
only a few rigorous evaluations and analyses of current and ongoing CBE pilots
and similar programs" (p. 6).

Competency-based
education is very expensive and time-consuming, and will change education
drastically. Application without evidence that it will help our children is
unacceptable.